[Xastir] manually generated tiger map problem

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Wed Apr 21 16:20:51 EDT 2004


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:

> I'm trying to generate some tiger maps to use when an internet
> connection is not available.  I fired up the sniffer, extracted the
> tiger URL that xastir generates, and wrote a little perl script to
> generate the URLs and (I think) matching .geo files.  Here is a sample
> URL and .geo file:

Just curious, are the vector maps not good enough for you?  We have
2003 tiger data available to us in vector format, and Xastir already
knows how to handle that.  It would save you from using raster
images, which are... yucky.

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